Light-Skinned Black People Gotta Stick Together

We’re not going to begrudge Colin Powell for his endorsement of Barack Obama. After all, it’s a (light-skinned) black thing – and as we’ve been told by many black people many times in the past, we “wouldn’t understand.”

All kidding aside, though, we’ve expressed our electoral indifference to “McBama” (a.k.a. Republicrat John McCain and “Spread the Wealth” party nominee Barack Obama) countless times by now.

Like dozens of their predecessors – both of these major party candidates are promoting images of themselves as “change agents” and “mavericks,” despite the fact that such rhetorical positioning runs counter to their shared record of support for Washington’s failed status quo.

So the fact that Powell wishes to lend his “gravitas” to Obama’s “transformative” campaign just isn’t that big of a deal to us.

Po(tey)to, po(tah)to, people.

Where we think Powell has gone absolutely crazy, however, is his assertion that the Republican party has “moved more to the right than I would like to see it.”

Wait, is it “Bizarro Day?”

Aside from the fact that there are plenty of white people and black people who would disagree with such a ridiculous statement, we’re not surprised that Powell feels that way – or at least probably had some talking points prepared for his Meet the Press interview this morning which suggested it might be a good idea for him to feel that way.

After all, this is the same guy who served as the chief character witness on behalf of indicted pork barrel spender Ted Stevens, who along with President Shrub is most responsible for the fiscal excesses that have Democrats poised to whoop some Republican ass at the polls … again.

But hey, Powell says Republicans have moved too far to the right. And people love them some Colin Powell.

In fact, they love him so much we had to resort to a controversial, attention-grabbing headline just to make our point about him.

Ordinarily, we’d say it was irresponsible for someone of Powell’s stature to say something so demonstrably untrue about the GOP, but let’s face it – there’s no use defending a party that doesn’t deserve to be defended.

Which is why we’re not going to join the angry Republican chorus denouncing Powell’s “betrayal.” How can we join a chorus that’s arguing vehemently against having done something when we believe that “something” (at least on fiscal issues) is precisely what it should have done?

What we are going to do, however, is turn our floor over once again to Eugene Robinson …

After eight years of the Bush administration, the Republican Party — to put it bluntly — is a mess and a fraud … when a political party reaches the point of lurching incoherence, the most effective cure is a good, long spell in the wilderness. Americans should help Republicans out by sending them home to get their act together.

Precisely.

Oh, and Robinson’s a light-skinned black guy, too … which means you can now disregard our controversial, attention-grabbing headline.

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